Pleasant eockwell houpe



(No Model.)

P. R. HOUPE.

COTTON PLANTER AND FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

Patented July 1, 1884.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES W V A Mumm -1 m. Walh'llgicn. 0. C.

l U NITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

PLEASANT ROCKWELL HOUPE, OF OAK FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA.

COTTON-PLANTER AND FERTILIZER-DISTRIBU TER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,447, dated July 1, 1884. Application filed August 1D, 1882. Renewed October 12, 1883. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PLEASANT ROCKWELL Honrn, of Oak Forest, in the county of Iredcll and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton- Planters and Fertilizer Distributers; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull,

'clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whieh- Figure l is a side elevation with the seedbox partly in section; and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section through the line a: a: of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

My invention consists of an improved cothereinafter.

wardly to the rear and support the seed-box D, which is formed with inclined sides like a hopper, and is fastened securely to said handies, which handles are in turn braced and supported by bars E, extending upwardlyfrom the main frame. Upon one side of the running and driving wheel is formed a circular central recess, in which is placed a bevel-gear wheel, F, which is firmly secured to said wheel,- so as to revolve with it. The recess formed on the side of said wheel is sufficiently deep to completelyhouse the bevel-wheel F, so that its teeth are entirely inside the plane of the side of said wheel.

G is a shaft having its lower end journaled in a box inthe main frame, and its upper end supported and turning in the'front wall of the seed-box. This shaft has at its lower end a bevel-pinion, a, which engages with the teeth of the gear-wheel F and is covered by a plate, I), to keep the dirt out of its teeth. The shaft G inclines upwardly to the rear at about the same inclination as the handles, and its rear end, that passes through the inside of the seed-box being at right angles to the side of said box, is provided with a stirrer or spiked wheel, I, that revolves in parallel position t0 the side of the box, with its teeth close to an'opening in the bottom of the box, through which the seed or fertilizer is discharged. This opening, as usual, has an adj ustable slide to regulate its size and determine the amount of seed or fertilizer to be discharged through the spout O.

In the front part of the main frame is fixed an opener-tooth, J, while in the rear is a coverer, K, that covers the seed or manure in the opening formed by the tooth in front. This coverer is made in the form of a U shaped metal plate, with its two ends in advance and its bent portion to the rear. Said plate is attached to the rear end of a dragging-frame, L, whose forward endsare hinged or jointed to the front portion of the main frame, and whose rear end may be raised or lowered at will by means of a strap, M.

I am aware of the patent to Foster, March 31, 1874. My invention differs therefrom in the fact that the hopper is made with inclined angular sides, one of whose sides is bolted fiat against the inclined handles, which form a support for the hopper, whose other side is brought into right angular relation to the stirrer-shaft, whose stirrer is thereby enabled to revolve flat against that side close to the opening at the bottom.

that the lower end of the stirrer-shaft is jourwith housing-plate b, and a stirrer, I, at its the running-wheel B, with its gear F set in- 10 upper end, the inclined handles 0 O, and the side the plane of the running-Wheel, and the fertilizer-box D, formed with inclined aninclined stirrer-shaft Gr, having pinion a, and gular sides, the rear side of which rests dijournaled at right angles to the front side of reetly upon and is supported flat against the the fertilizer-box, as shown and described. handles, While the front side is brought at PLEASANT ROCKWELL HOUPE. right angles to and forms a bearing for the in "Witnesses: elined shaft, as set forth. J AS. F. ANDERSON,

2. The combination of the main frame A, W. W. Mo'r'r. 

